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Human Rights Lawyers and Aboriginal leaders lodged a complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) on the “discriminatory and punitive youth justice policies” that constitute significant human rights violations against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

Organisers cited Australia’s endorsement of the 1947 United Nations (UN) Partition Plan and the “ongoing political alignment with policies that have enabled the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories” as contributing to Australia’s complicity in the oppression of Palestinians.